Would you eat this fish caught in Sydney Harbour?

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Posted this 2015-09-02 10:45 AM ADT (updated 2015-10-21 3:44 PM ADT)

This is a mackerel, like those being caught in Sydney Harbour. You can fry it, broil it, put it in a chowder, but the question that's on the table is:

Would you eat a fish caught in Sydney Harbour?

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Steven Rolls Follow Me 2015-09-02 3:32 PM ADT Reply 2 0 Would and have... eating is just one perk. The community formed on the Government Wharf this time of year is amazing. People interact, mingle, teach each other, and broaden their views of what they think they know. The fish being caught they are migrant and passing through. They are no more poisoned by anything which may be in the waters than I am a influenced by crime with a short visit to Halifax. Our harbour is cleaner than many of them out there and has been fished in for over a century. You wonder about sewage, ships, and garbage... what do you think is in the waters 20km out where your Sobey's fish come from. Fish swim in poo all the time. IT IS MOSTLY THEIR OWN! Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-02 8:30 PM ADT Reply 1 0 20 kms out there would be much lower concentration as the big blue sea disperses it all. ;) Though I'd have to think about the contents of any harbour, I've never thought much about fishing in this one. I'm sure some agency must be testing its level of contamination?
Nigel Kearns Follow Me 2015-09-02 4:28 PM ADT Reply 1 0 I am not a big fish eater, but can't see me munching on one from the harbour. But during the Sydney RibFest, some of the ribbers were fishing, catching and cooking them right away. They loved it! They also swam in it, and when we explained that we wouldn't they said "We swim in lake Ontario" Fair enough! go figure? Richard Lorway Follow Me 2015-09-02 4:41 PM ADT Reply 1 0 Good point. Lake Ontario is fairly disgusting. Not much flow there. No tides, no river flowing out to the ocean except via a very narrow outlet.
Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-02 8:31 PM ADT Reply 0 0 Who would know the official answer?
Gary LeDrew Follow Me 2015-09-03 7:51 AM ADT Reply 1 0 Eat them not a problem I will even eat them for sushi. These are migrant fish eating migrant fish.. Not even close to a problem. I would cook and eat anything else I caught too.
Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2015-09-03 9:33 AM ADT Reply 0 0 I think I might eat the picture of the fish first. Then I would drive to the next Ribfest.
David Reid Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:32 AM ADT Reply 2 0 I won't even swim in the harbour, let alone eat anything that came out of it (at least not knowingly). The last time I swam in the harbour, I was treated to a nice floating pile of toilet paper and hospital waste. If that's the stuff that I can see, what's in there that I can't? No thank you. Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:36 AM ADT Reply 0 0 Well that certainly doesn't sound appetizing. ;)
Rory Andrews Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:33 AM ADT Reply 1 0 I've eaten street meat on the side of the road in Beijing from a guy who didn't speak English. I had no idea what I was putting in my mouth, besides the fact that it was awesome. I've always thought that risk averse eaters are risk averse people in general, and where's the fun in that. All I'm saying is that if all you order at restaurants are chicken tenders and club sandwiches, you're probably not jumping out of planes or racing motorcycles. Conclusion: Picky eaters have less fun. Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:41 AM ADT Reply 2 0 I don't think uncertainty about contaminated food is in the same class as picky eaters or those reluctant to try new or unfamiliar foods. Avoiding bacteria, parasite, toxin, etc, isn't being picky. ;) However, there were several that made reasonable arguments up until the point David Reid won the day with his swimming experience details! I think we'll stick to the Main a Dieu lobster. :) Rory Andrews Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:05 AM ADT Reply 1 0 From my highly scientific methodology of eating Esso taquitos and dumpster food, I've found no discernible reason to avoid bacteria, parasites, toxins, or inexplicable slime mold. My highly comprehensive sample size of one, being me, has shown that eating mystery meat with unidentifiable condiments, which may or may not be motor oil, has shown amazing medical benefits, aside from the occasional knee boils and mental dysentery. Conclusion: I'm probably going to get cancer. Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:19 AM ADT Reply 0 0 From my experience eating seafood at the Mandarin buffet in Brampton, Ontario, I assure you there is some reason for avoidance. Thank goodness for Subway's forethinking in terms of washroom facilities. With that said, I have broken my own rule as well... Even after my Fear the Walking Mandarin experience, I still ate raw (until sun baked) oysters from the roadways near Boqueron Beach in Puerto Rico. Rumor has it there are Hepatitis bacteria strains that look under their bed every night to make sure these frightening oysters, straight outta folklore, ain't there. Conclusion: We might have to share a room at the regional hospital at some point in the future. ;) David Reid Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:15 AM ADT Reply 0 0 I think there's a difference between eating something that you think might have something bad in it (your street meat) compared with knowing that you're eating something that's been swimming in (what at least I deem) filthy water. I'd rather eat something caught outside of the harbour. Tar ponds lunch anyone? Rory's buying (or at least catching). Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:21 AM ADT Reply 0 0 I wonder what the street meat vendors (that sounded weird, possibly should have revised phrasing) would think of donair meat slabs. :) Rory - please edit, and make this comment work. :P
Susan Soears Follow Me 2015-09-03 1:51 PM ADT Reply 0 0 Sure it's not like they're in a pond or lake of that water all year round, you would think that different fish would constantly going in and out of the harbour so not in the "dirty water" for long periods of time.. Just a thought, I wouldn't be scared to eat them.. Now shellfish from there nope! Or bottom feeders nope.. Lol Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 2:02 PM ADT Reply 0 0 I fished a local lake that didn't have a strong in or out flow. Turns out it was a favorite place for ducks, and duck droppings. While the lake looks incredible, when I cleaned the trout taken from that lake, they had parasites. Turned me off of eating freshwater fish just from seeing it. Absolutely no human origin waste there, but I certainly wouldn't eat anything from that standing water unless I was starving. I'm sure cooking kills any parasite risk and they may not even be transferrable to humans, but the mind plays a big part in eating too. Not after seeing that. ;)
Gary LeDrew Follow Me 2015-09-03 3:02 PM ADT Reply 1 0 Been around a long time and have eaten many fish from much much worse waters than these. I will be glad to take all you catch.

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Steven Rolls Follow Me 2015-09-02 3:32 PM ADT

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Would and have... eating is just one perk. The community formed on the Government Wharf this time of year is amazing. People interact, mingle, teach each other, and broaden their views of what they think they know. The fish being caught they are migrant and passing through. They are no more poisoned by anything which may be in the waters than I am a influenced by crime with a short visit to Halifax. Our harbour is cleaner than many of them out there and has been fished in for over a century. You wonder about sewage, ships, and garbage... what do you think is in the waters 20km out where your Sobey's fish come from. Fish swim in poo all the time. IT IS MOSTLY THEIR OWN!

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-02 8:30 PM ADT

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20 kms out there would be much lower concentration as the big blue sea disperses it all. ;) Though I'd have to think about the contents of *any* harbour, I've never thought much about fishing in this one. I'm sure some agency must be testing its level of contamination?

Nigel Kearns Follow Me 2015-09-02 4:28 PM ADT

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I am not a big fish eater, but can't see me munching on one from the harbour. But during the Sydney RibFest, some of the ribbers were fishing, catching and cooking them right away. They loved it! They also swam in it, and when we explained that we wouldn't they said "We swim in lake Ontario" Fair enough! go figure?

Richard Lorway Follow Me 2015-09-02 4:41 PM ADT

Reply 1 0

Good point. Lake Ontario is fairly disgusting. Not much flow there. No tides, no river flowing out to the ocean except via a very narrow outlet.

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-02 8:31 PM ADT

Reply 0 0

Who would know the official answer?

Gary LeDrew Follow Me 2015-09-03 7:51 AM ADT

Reply 1 0

Eat them not a problem I will even eat them for sushi. These are migrant fish eating migrant fish.. Not even close to a problem. I would cook and eat anything else I caught too.

Mathew Georghiou Follow Me 2015-09-03 9:33 AM ADT

Reply 0 0

I think I might eat the picture of the fish first. Then I would drive to the next Ribfest.

David Reid Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:32 AM ADT

Reply 2 0

I won't even swim in the harbour, let alone eat anything that came out of it (at least not knowingly). The last time I swam in the harbour, I was treated to a nice floating pile of toilet paper and hospital waste. If that's the stuff that I can see, what's in there that I can't? No thank you.

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:36 AM ADT

Reply 0 0

Well that certainly doesn't sound appetizing. ;)

Rory Andrews Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:33 AM ADT

Reply 1 0

I've eaten street meat on the side of the road in Beijing from a guy who didn't speak English. I had no idea what I was putting in my mouth, besides the fact that it was awesome. I've always thought that risk averse eaters are risk averse people in general, and where's the fun in that. All I'm saying is that if all you order at restaurants are chicken tenders and club sandwiches, you're probably not jumping out of planes or racing motorcycles. Conclusion: Picky eaters have less fun.

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 10:41 AM ADT

Reply 2 0

I don't think uncertainty about contaminated food is in the same class as picky eaters or those reluctant to try new or unfamiliar foods. Avoiding bacteria, parasite, toxin, etc, isn't being picky. ;) However, there were several that made reasonable arguments up until the point David Reid won the day with his swimming experience details! I think we'll stick to the Main a Dieu lobster. :)

Rory Andrews Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:05 AM ADT

Reply 1 0

From my highly scientific methodology of eating Esso taquitos and dumpster food, I've found no discernible reason to avoid bacteria, parasites, toxins, or inexplicable slime mold. My highly comprehensive sample size of one, being me, has shown that eating mystery meat with unidentifiable condiments, which may or may not be motor oil, has shown amazing medical benefits, aside from the occasional knee boils and mental dysentery. Conclusion: I'm probably going to get cancer.

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:19 AM ADT

Reply 0 0

From my experience eating seafood at the Mandarin buffet in Brampton, Ontario, I assure you there is some reason for avoidance. Thank goodness for Subway's forethinking in terms of washroom facilities. With that said, I have broken my own rule as well... Even after my Fear the Walking Mandarin experience, I still ate raw (until sun baked) oysters from the roadways near Boqueron Beach in Puerto Rico. Rumor has it there are Hepatitis bacteria strains that look under their bed every night to make sure these frightening oysters, straight outta folklore, ain't there. Conclusion: We might have to share a room at the regional hospital at some point in the future. ;)

David Reid Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:15 AM ADT

Reply 0 0

I think there's a difference between eating something that you think *might* have something bad in it (your street meat) compared with knowing that you're eating something that's been swimming in (what at least I deem) filthy water. I'd rather eat something caught outside of the harbour. Tar ponds lunch anyone? Rory's buying (or at least catching).

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 11:21 AM ADT

Reply 0 0

I wonder what the street meat vendors (that sounded weird, possibly should have revised phrasing) would think of donair meat slabs. :) Rory - please edit, and make this comment work. :P

Susan Soears Follow Me 2015-09-03 1:51 PM ADT

Reply 0 0

Sure it's not like they're in a pond or lake of that water all year round, you would think that different fish would constantly going in and out of the harbour so not in the "dirty water" for long periods of time.. Just a thought, I wouldn't be scared to eat them.. Now shellfish from there nope! Or bottom feeders nope.. Lol

Joe Ward Follow Me 2015-09-03 2:02 PM ADT

Reply 0 0

I fished a local lake that didn't have a strong in or out flow. Turns out it was a favorite place for ducks, and duck droppings. While the lake looks incredible, when I cleaned the trout taken from that lake, they had parasites. Turned me off of eating freshwater fish just from seeing it. Absolutely no human origin waste there, but I certainly wouldn't eat anything from that standing water unless I was starving. I'm sure cooking kills any parasite risk and they may not even be transferrable to humans, but the mind plays a big part in eating too. Not after seeing that. ;)

Gary LeDrew Follow Me 2015-09-03 3:02 PM ADT

Reply 1 0

Been around a long time and have eaten many fish from much much worse waters than these. I will be glad to take all you catch.

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